³ Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

¹⁴ If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵ All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

⁷ Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

⁶ And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

⁷ And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

³⁵ I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

⁴ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.